Surprising New Research Links Infant Mortality to Crashing Bat Populations

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/05/climate/bats-pesticides-infant-mortality.html

by DoremusJessup

3 comments

  2. Links as in correlation for to pesticides. Not causal with bats.

    Bad headline

  3. Key quote

    *When a fatal disease hit bats…. farmers in affected U.S. counties increased their use of insecticides by 31 percent when bat populations declined. In those places, infant mortality rose by an estimated 8 percent.*

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